Overview
- Assistant coach Brad Haddin said Thursday that scans showed no fracture in Shreyas Iyer’s right wrist and that he is expected to face Chennai Super Kings.
- The PBKS captain was struck on the right hand by a Cooper Connolly drive during the Gujarat Titans match and he batted on for 18 off 11 before falling to Prasidh Krishna.
- Punjab Kings won that game by three wickets, with debutant Cooper Connolly’s unbeaten 72 earning Player of the Match.
- The IPL fined Iyer INR 12 lakhs for a slow over-rate in that fixture under Article 2.22 in the team’s first offense of the season.
- Iyer is central to PBKS’s plans after topping their 2025 scoring with 604 runs and compiling 3,749 career IPL runs, which heightens the impact of his expected availability in Chennai.